Faculty and Staff cont. . . External Grants received in 1999 or Spring 2000: Susan Hermiller & John Meakin, NSF grant for conference on Groups and Semigroups Wendy Hines and Judy Walker, MAA Tensor Grant for All Girls/All Math Wendy Hines and Judy Walker, AMS Epsilon Program grant for All Girls/All Math Jim Lewis, NSF grant with Ruth Heaton and Patience Fisher Partha Lahiri, National Center for Health Statistics grant Partha Lahiri, NSF grant Partha Lahiri, funding for conference on “Model Selection and Empirical Bayes” Taps Maiti, ASA/NSF/Census Bureau Fellowship Taps Maiti, NSF grant Taps Maiti, NSF Type-II-EPSCoR grant John Meakin, NSF grant (with Birget, Margolis, and Sapir) John Orr, contract with Wiley for student assessment over the web Richard Rebarber, funding for CBMS conference at UNL Judy Walker, NSF grant Mark Walker, NSA grant First Annual Recognition Dinner Internal Grants received in 1999 or Spring 2000: Jim Lewis, Math/Science Education College Area of Strength Taps Maiti, Layman Award John Meakin, Discrete, Experimental and Applied Mathematics College Area of Strength Lori Mueller & Gordon Woodward, Gallup Sponsorship of Math Day John Orr, UN Foundation Grant for the On-line Testing Center Gordon Woodward, UNL-Pepsi Grant for MathExcel program Books and Conference Proceedings Published: Jim Lewis (with eleven others), “Towards Excellence: Leading a Doctoral Mathematics Department in the 21st Century” Partha Lahiri (with J.K. Ghosh), Proceedings of “Current Topics in Survey Sampling” Conference, published in a special issue of Sankhya, The Indian Journal of Statistics. John Meakin (with J-C.Birget, S.Margolis, and M.Sapir), “Algorithmic Problems in Groups and Semigroups”. John Orr, Wiley Webtest in Precalculus and College Algebra, CD-ROM Jerry Johnson (with Michel Lapidus), “The Feynman Integral and Feynman’s Operational Calculus”. T he U niversity of N ebraska-Lincoln is an affirm ative action/equal opportunity institution. Tuesday April 25, 2000 Wick Alumni Center 6:00— 9:00 p.m. Faculty and Staff, continued. . . Donald W. Miller Distinguished Service Award (Nebraska Association of Teachers of Mathematics) for contributions to the improvement of mathematics education in Nebraska: Mel Thornton Program National President of the Association for Women in Mathematics (completed term in February 1999): Sylvia Wiegand Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Women Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Status of Women, 2000: Sylvia Wiegand 6:00—7:00 p.m. Reception 7:00—8:00 p.m. Dinner 8:00— Opening Remarks . . . . . . . . . Jim Lewis Recognition Descriptions and Comments College and University-wide Awards: Dan Nettleton — A&S, College Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1999 Judy Walker — A&S, College Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2000 Scholarly Teacher Award, 2000 Gordon Woodward — Student Foundation/Builders Award for Outstanding Advising, 1999 Other Campus Recognition for Outstanding Teaching Parents Association Certificates of Recognition for Contributions to Students: 1999: Jim Lewis, Skip Thomas, Mel Thornton, Judy Walker, Gordon Woodward 2000: Jerry Johnson, Allan Peterson, Mohammad Rammaha, Judy Walker, Mark Walker, Gordon Woodward Professor of the Month, Mortar Board: Trent Buskirk, February 2000 Special thanks to Allan Donsig and Mark Walker for organizing the department’s first annual recognition dinner Excellence in Graduate Education, 1999: Roger Wiegand, Honorable Mention Fellowships: Trent Buskirk, 2000-2001 Gallup Professorship Taps Maiti, 1999-2000 Gallup Professorship Taps Maiti, 1999-2000 Research Council Faculty Fellowship Judy Walker, 1999 Faculty Summer Research Fellowship Program Designed by Lori J. Mueller, Administrative Tech Masters Degree Recipients: Undergraduates May 2000: Aaron Krieser Yu Feng 1999 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow ship W inners: Travis Fisher, Paul Macklin, and Steve Whalen 1999 Department of Defense Graduate Fellow ship w inners: Travis Fisher and Steve Whalen Arts & Sciences Award: Mike Ira (1999) Lisa Johnson (2000) Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students for 1999: Iyad Abu-Jeib Arts & Sciences Alumni Association Student Leadership Aw ard: Travis Fisher and Sara Russell (1999) Mustafa Bashir and Gopi Shah (2000) 1999 Outstanding First Year Student: Lois Goss Honorable Mention: Aaron Krieser Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in M athem atics by an Undergraduate W oman, Honorable M ention: Jackie Kohles 1999 Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student: Lisa Johnson Theresa Strei 1999 Emeritus Faculty Fellowship Scholars: Elvan Akin Justin James Bill Wolesensky 1999 Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young Fellowship: Patricia Nelson 1999 Outstanding Qualifying Exam: Bill Wolesensky Math Majors Graduating with Highest Distinction: Mustafa Bashir* (May 2000) Gopi Shah* (May 2000) Math Majors Graduating with High Distinction: Brian Oppliger (May 2000) Math Majors Graduating with Distinction: Heidi Basler (December 1999) Anissa Tyler (May 2000) Matthew Nabity (May 2000) Kimberly Vance (May 2000) Hao Pham* (May 2000) * Honors Thesis Chancellor's Scholars: Bryan Cooley (1999) Paul Macklin (1999) Faculty and Staff Retiring and/or Departing Lecturers and Tenure-Track Faculty: Angela Herrington, Dan Nettleton, and Mel Thornton 0 (mod 5) years of service: Steve Dunbar—15 Brian Harbourne—15 Earl Kramer—30 John Meakin—30 Mohammad Rammaha—15 Mohsin Soliman (1999) Brian Oppliger (2000) Math Majors Graduating in August 1999: Jeffrey Aguilar, U-Keng Ip, Steven Lane, Yolanda Rolle Math Majors Graduating in December 1999: Heidi Basler*, Jill Hemmer, Adam Julch, Peter Olson, Benjamin Swanson*, Aaron Weatherman Math Majors Graduating in May 2000: Matthew Beckman, Mustafa Bashir*, Keri Bernadt, Matthew Evans, Ned Hummel*, Kathleen Lewis, Tanya Lloyd, Matthew Nabity*, Michael Nebel, Brian Oppliger*, Hao Pham*, Gopi Shah*, Nicholas Stark, Kasturi Subramanian, Anissa Tyler, Kimberly Vance*, Nicholas Yager * Superior Scholars "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" Participants, 1999: Mustafa Bashir (at UNL, with Richard Rebarber) Jackie Kohles (at UNL, with Roger Wiegand) Brian Wickman (at Pennsylvania State University) Debbie Zadina (at UNL, with Richard Rebarber) NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship: Graham Leuschke Participant in McNair Project at UNL, 1999: Dzuan Nguyen (with Jamie Radcliffe & Wendy Hines) UNL Alumni Association Research Assistant Aw ard: Graham Leuschke Participants in MASS program, Pennsylvania State University, 1999: Lucas Sabalka Brian Wickman UNL Alumni Association GTA Teaching Award: Mike Ira (1999) Lisa Johnson (2000) Graduate Students Study Abroad Programs: Jackie Kohles (Budapest, 1999) Michelle Swenson (University of Bath, 1998-1999) Debbie Zadina (Berlin, 2000) Ph. 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Recipients: Internships, Summer of 1999: Ned Hummel (Wolfram Research) Kathleen Lewis (University of Nebraska Medical Center) Gopi Shah (Hewitt Associates) Graduate Women in Science Awardees: Jennifer Burke, Dorea Claassen, Catherine Herink, Karlie Johnson, Lisabeth Jump, Laura Kuskie, Taryne Ladd, Amy Mettenbrink, Sadie Meyer, Melinda Oliver, Megan Sheets, Michelle Swenson, Megan Torau, Hoai-Nam Tran, Ellen Veomett Laura Cockson Memorial Scholarship: Brett Stohs Top Putnam Scores among Math Majors: Gerard Gjonej, Jackie Kohles, Gopi Shah Honors Conference Presenters: Mustafa Bashir, Gerard Gjonej, Jackie Kohles, Hao Pham Freshman Eastman Scholars: Meagan Cody, Patricia Grundman, Seth Hain, Jeffrey Ifland, Autumn Merriman-Honerkamp, Brian Wickman Arts & Sciences Alumni Association Achievement Award: Amy Bouska (1999) Klaus Schmidt (2000) August 1999: Daryl Bell, advised by Bo Deng — accepted a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Department, UNL Tim Pollis, advised by Jamie Radcliffe — accepted position as an Actuarial Analyst at Tillinghast-Towers Perrin, Boston Krista Taylor, advised by Bo Deng — accepted position as an Assistant Professor at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio Rikki Wagstrom, advised by Steve Cohn — accepted position as an Assistant Professor at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan December 1999: Paul Gierke, advised by Tom Shores — accepted position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska Shu-Mei Wan, advised by Partha Lahiri May 2000: Mike Ira, advised by Earl Kramer — accepted position of Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin, Platteville Graham Leuschke, advised by Roger Wiegand — won an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship to study at University of Kansas under direction of Craig Huneke August 2000: Iyad Abu-Jeib, advised by Tom Shores Lisa Johnson, advised by Jerry Johnson — accepted position of Assistant Professor at University of Saint Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota Jane Meza, advised by Partha Lahiri — accepted position of Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska Medical Center
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